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...troubles. Some Ives compositions are marked "play as you will." In rehearsal, single measures in Ives's symphonic suite Three Places in New England had to be hashed over as many as ten times. One section has a trumpet blaring the melody of The British Grenadiers in march tempo, while the strings saw away on a waltz. Groaned Assistant Conductor Richard Burgin: "I give the time, but the musicians are not supposed to follow...
...Rome last week, an eye-catching story splashed across the columns of the independent Il Tempo. The left-wing partisans who call themselves "Garibaldini" would wear new khaki uniforms with red neckerchiefs and visored caps at a grand parade on Feb. 18. The partisans also had arms and ammunition. Asked II Tempo: "What does Scelba think of this...
...wanted was swaggering, uniformed, intimidating bands of Communists and left-wing Socialists marching the streets of Italy. Scelba wanted a law forbidding all private armed organizations. But his cabinet colleagues needed convincing. They feared a row. With a shrewd twinkle in his black eyes, Mario Scelba let scrappy Il Tempo take up the cudgels...
...Tempo swung its spotlight on red-shirted Garibaldini squads in the region of Lecce, on a "liberty brigade" in Bari, on a Verona clothes factory commissioned to make military-style berets. Then the paper brought off a small coup: it ran a letter from the grandson and namesake of the Italian liberator himself. Mourned grandson Giuseppe Garibaldi: ". . .There is no law in Italy to protect . . . the portrait and name of my grandfather . . . [from being] made to represent parties which are the very negation of Garibaldian traditions of liberty...
...second period got off to a sloppy start, but Dave Abbot managed to top off a disorganized rush with an unassisted goal at 2:12. McKean added his second tally at 10:15, but Northeastern struck back two minutes late while the Crimson were shorthanded. The tempo of play went up as George Minot angled in the sixth Crimson score at 14:45, Dick Greeley following with his second effort shortly thereafter...